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“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” – Bill Watterson

Any article about life in the universe wouldn’t make any sense without being introduced with the above quote. While a fun statement, it is flawed. As I’ll explain in a moment, life in other parts of the universe may have already tried to contact us, but the message hasn’t gotten here yet. It’s something we think about a lot for sure, the question of whether or not there is life in the universe besides ours. Up to this point in our existence, there is no concrete proof to prove the existence of other intelligent life — or lack thereof. There are many theories, many ideas floating around that attempt to offer a comforting thought about life in the universe.

The caveat with these theories is that they are based on assumptions and scientific based guesses. Because no matter how hard we try, we’ve only visually discovered a tiny portion of the universe, and even that is an assumption. In order to understand or even comprehend the probability of even our existence, much less the existence of others, we can turn to the probability theory suggested by the famous British mathematician Roger Penrose. Penrose supposed that the odds against the existence of life on this planet were on the order of (10 to the power of 10123) to 1. That’s so massively unlikely it’s almost impossible to fathom, but there it is.Continue Reading “Are We Alone In the Universe?” »